Permitech GOV: The Front Door
1 minute · Music, no narration
About the film
How a pre-submittal layer sits in front of the permitting system a department already runs.
A one-minute illustrated film for building departments, with music and on-screen text. Incomplete applications cost staff a round trip at intake and again at review. Permitech GOV is a pre-submittal layer on top of the system a department already runs: applicants fix the gaps first, so zoning, parcel and forms are checked before an application is filed, and staff still make every decision. The film closes with what two cities spend on permitting software and an example 90-day pilot whose figures are illustrative.
- Length
- 1 minute
- Sound
- Music, no narration
- Plays on
- YouTube
- The moving pipeline is an illustration. None of its traffic is data.
- The checklist is an example from a Naperville shed permit (Municipal Code 6-2-10.1).
- The pilot table is an illustrative example of what a pilot would measure. It is not a Permitech result or a forecast.
Sources for the costs
Other vendors' contracts, cited to show what cities spend.
Transcript
Scene by scene
The film has music and no narration. Each scene is described below with its on-screen text.
An illustrated pipeline runs from an applicant's house to intake at city hall, plan review and a decision stamp.
Applications with gaps are turned away at intake as correction letters. Others pass intake and are sent back from review, and resubmittals pile up on the plan reviewer's desk.
On screen
Municipal permitting
Applications arrive incomplete.
Every round trip costs staff time.
A Permitech GOV pre-submittal check lands between the applicant and city hall. Applications waiting at the door go back through it, and each one is checked before it reaches intake.
On screen
Permitech GOV
A pre-submittal layer.
On top of the system you already run.
One application opens into a Filing Checklist, labeled as an example shed permit in the City of Naperville. A scan flags missing items, such as confirming 5 ft from the side and rear lot lines under Municipal Code 6-2-10.1. The applicant fixes them and the application reaches Ready to file while Permibot points to the rows.
The application passes intake on its first try, and the reviewer is pleased to see complete applications arrive.
On screen
Applicants fix the gaps first.
Zoning, parcel and forms checked before it's filed.
The chain is labeled: applicant, then Permitech GOV before submittal, then the department's permitting system, staff review and decision, marked as the existing system, unchanged. Checked applications move through. One is still sent back by the reviewer.
On screen
Your staff still make every decision.
Two cost cards. Denver's city boundary draws with a pin, then a civic building appears for Rockford, Illinois. The sources are listed under the cards and named as other vendors' contracts, not Permitech's.
On screen
What cities spend
Permitting software isn't cheap.
Denver, AI guided plan review: Up to $4.6M over five years
Rockford, Ill., new permit software: $305K in year one, then $212K a year
A short stack of applications travels a 90-day track whose last 30 days are marked Measure. A table labeled Example 90-day pilot shows first-round approval rate going from 36% to 71% and intake cycles per permit from 2.6 to 1.3.
On screen
How we start
Start with a short list of permits for 90 days.
At a fraction of that cost, scoped to your budget and your system.
The check mark becomes part of the Permitech GOV logo: an orange layer with a check set on civic columns.
On screen
Pre-submittal layer for municipal permitting
Start a pilot at permitech.io/government
Example pilot figures are illustrative. We don't guarantee approval rates, timelines or code interpretations.